A Casual Stroll to Mordor

This poll was emailed in by Wolftear Victorious Hunter of the Sword Halls of the Ancient Ones Kinship on Snowbourne Server.

We have a wonderful opportunity for you to win some Turbine Points! Thaladus has offered up a Turbine Points he’s purchased himself just for you to create a great LOTRO video.

Each week we ask you to share your successes in Middle Earth with the rest of the community. Post a comment letting us know what you’ve accomplished this past week.

The following items are on sale from February 3-9, 2012.

Gilaran of the Mellon Nin kinship on the Gilrain server on the Prized Isengard Steed.

Kotaku has a great article up about artwork by Wes Burt of Massive Black showing artwork designs done for our favorite game, The Lord of the Rings Online.

CNN’s Geek Out blog has a new article out today called “The migratory patterns of MMO gamers”. In the article the author, Nikki Rau-Baker, talks about the pattern of MMO players to leave their game to try another game.

This week we talk about the new expansion Riders of Rohan coming Fall 2012 and the news of what is coming with Update 6.

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A featured screenshot from the LOTRO community posted on our Flickr group.

This question was sent in by Thaladus. I thought it was a fun idea to just have a silly poll like this for a week.

January 30th is the final day of the Yule Festival! Make sure you turn in all your tokens and buy up all the goodies you were hoping for this weekend.

This Outside LOTRO is brought to you by Aethalwulf of Landroval who sent us this link to some One Ring nail art!

Each week we ask you to share your successes in Middle Earth with the rest of the community. Post a comment letting us know what you’ve accomplished this past week.

Six of the festival steeds can currently be found in the store for 50% off until January 31, 2012. Regular price at 1195 Turbine Points, you can catch these 62% speed 100 morale horses for 598 Turbine Points.

The following items are on sale from January 27 – February 2, 2012.

You may remember Beldrieth of Arkenstone from her excellent story “Mainly Concerning a Hobbit” which she was so nice to let us post here on CSTM.

Turbine has released a press release this morning announcing the next expansion coming this fall. Riders of Rohan!

The undelete service and the kinship rename are now moving to including the option to pay with Turbine Points.

I’m very pleased to point out to everyone’s attention, this post today by Sapience giving an official stance of their reasoning for putting low level store armour in the game as well as some responses to the most common fears and comments about the store items and in fact about Turbine in general.

MMORPG.com is hosting a screenshot contest starting today and ending Thursday, January 26th. Submit a screenshot and you could be the winner of a 1,000 Turbine Points code!

Declassified report from the 17th Scout Unit, under the advisory command of Lord Elladan of the House of Elrond, yet authorized for independent ranging and errantry in the Untamed Lands.

This week we talk a lot more about the store armor, point to some articles on the big gaming sites, talk about Update 5.1 and more!

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A featured screenshot from the LOTRO community posted on our Flickr group.